After accounting for total daily step count, researchers found no association between stepping intensity and risk of death.
Notes on verification
Directly confirmed by the original JAMA study (Saint-Maurice et al., 2020) and corroborated by NIH, NCI, and ACC summaries, with no contradicting sources for this specific finding.
Sources
- Higher Daily Step Count Linked with Lower All-cause ... (archive.cdc.gov)
- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7093766 (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
- https://www.acc.org/latest-in-cardiology/journal-scans/2020/03/26/13/22/association-of-daily-step-count-and-step (acc.org)
- https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/press-releases/2020/daily-step-count-mortality (cancer.gov)
- https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/number-steps-day-more-important-step-intensity (nih.gov)